Faces and Places

Sometimes hobbies become a passion that turns into a part of who we are. That’s exactly what happened to the late Jim Lasley.

Lasley stumbled into his birdwatching hobby innocently. Trying to answer questions about birds posed by his three (then small) children back in the early 1950s, he found he needed to do some research of his own. Lasley, a well respected mechanical engineer who oversaw the construction of the Grace Plant for Springs Industry, didn’t know much about birds but knew just who to contact.

The Lancaster County Department of Social Services honored a volunteer on Thursday who has given more than 20 years of service as a member of the Lancaster County DSS Advisory Board.

Flossie Williams, a retired Lancaster County School District secretary, attended the event with her husband, Eugene. After Lancaster County DSS Director Janice Chapman presented Williams with a plaque commemorating her years of service, the other board members presented her with a variety of gifts.

Baldwin, a new speech therapist at Heath Springs Elementary School, has organized a LEGO robotics team to teach young people the properties of engineering, as well as develop a newfound respect for the classic toy.

The team consists of seven boys, all in the fifth grade, who were chosen last year by their teachers and guidance counselors to participate in the program.

Lancaster & Chester Railroad, LLC was named the Fort Lawn Community Center 2012 Partnership of the Year at the center’s annual meeting on Sept. 20. Ron Seegars accepted the award on behalf of L&C from Libby Sweatt-Lambert, FLCC Executive Director, at the event.
L&C has remained a strong supporter of the programs and activities at FLCC through the years and is the primary sponsor of the community center’s largest fundraiser of the year, the Annual Spring Festival, which will be held Apr. 20.

Irene R. Burriss, a former Lancaster resident now residing at Garden City Beach, has published a cookbook to help organizations raise funds.

The cookbook is a 500-recipe collection with nine color photos and 182 pages.
The spiral-bound book titled Sharing Love Through Cooking is a collection of “tried-and-true” recipes that are both simple and satisfying.